Cohort Year 2021-2022

Kevin Aslett is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Political Economy Forum at the University of Washington. His research broadly focuses on the effect…

Michael Bernstein will spend the fellowship year at CASBS developing theory and design for pro-social social media platforms. Bernstein’s research designs, builds, and studies social computing systems at scales from teams to crowds. He is an associate professor of computer…

Samantha Bradshaw is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Program on Democracy and the Internet and the Digital Civil Society Lab. She completed her D.Phil. at the Oxford Internet Institute, where her research examined the producers and drivers of disinformation and…

Alex Kowalski is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute for Work & Employment Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. Drawing on interdisciplinary training in sociology, industrial relations, and economics, his research investigates how the future…

Dr. Rachel Kuo writes, teaches, and researches race, social movements, and digital technology. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Visiting Scholar at…

Brandeis teaches, speaks and writes about the impact of data practices on technology and society. Her work contributes to the data engineering, data science, and data/computer science education fields. Through Dr. Marshall’s data education firm, she guides current tech workers…

Emily uses design and technology to make things—products, experiences, programs, policies, organizations—work better for people. In her career she has been a product manager, service designer, user researcher, program designer, and advisor to senior executives transforming the products, services, and/or…

Sophie Kelmenson is a postdoctoral fellow in City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Siegel Family Endowment Research Fellow. Her research and publications examine opportunities for equitable development, often in the context…